Re: Aha! moments029 (11/1/2006 4:29:51 PM) comp.lang.lisp Zach Beane write: > What are some of the things that triggered your own Aha! moments? What > sort of stuff delighted you when you discovered it? What advice would > you give people who want to have more Aha! mo... Tayssir
MOP design problem with multiple slot options?142 (3/17/2006 12:32:46 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm wondering whether this is a MOP design flaw: (defclass foo-1 () ((slot-1 :new-slot-option (list :quux :bar)))) (defclass foo-2 () ((slot-1 :new-slot-option :bar :new-slot-option :quux))) I... Tayssir
Lazy eval systems251 (2/10/2006 8:09:20 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, For personal interest, I'm looking for either lazy eval systems for Lisp, or some opensource projects which make nice use of it. (That ideally I can run on say Mac+SBCL/CMUCL, though it's not necessary if ... Tayssir
Shortcut for defclass147 (2/2/2006 6:27:01 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, What do people use instead of specifying DEFCLASS slot options, when they really don't care yet about the details, and just want sane defaults? I have my own macro for this, but I'd like to use something m... Tayssir
Bunch of old books/papers at Computer History Museum239 (5/24/2005 10:28:26 AM) comp.lang.lisp Paul McJones announced yesterday that he's offering Lisp info online at the Computer History Museum: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/725 So for example, they've put online some book I had to order int... Tayssir
Managerial-oriented tech? David Nobles.1726 (11/5/2004 3:16:27 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi all, I'm waiting David Nobles's book to be delivered, which talks about the two forks in the road that technology could have taken. One was to increase managerial control; the other was to put tech in the h... tayss_temp2
Scheme implementations with dynamically scoped vars?531 (9/16/2004 4:02:19 AM) comp.lang.scheme Hi, Does anyone know which Scheme implementations give one the option of using dynamically scoped variables? I do not mean as a replacement for lexical, just an added feature. I could not easily find a list ... tayss_temp2
Re: troll's food (python vs lisp)026 (9/13/2004 9:50:16 AM) comp.lang.lisp Martin Raspaud wrote: > If lisp is so great (which I tend to believe, actually) are their so > many people not using it ? > > I mean there must be flaws or something, otherwise everybody would use > it I suppos... Tayssir
Re: Some macro character questions #2028 (9/9/2004 6:35:51 PM) comp.lang.lisp Tim Bradshaw wrote: > Jeff M. wrote: > > The first is a play off an older Lisp implementation I read about > > (can't remember the name of the implementation, but I'm sure someone > > here knows). It would be s... Tayssir
continuing next iteration1226 (9/2/2006 6:08:30 PM) comp.lang.lisp Trying to skip the rest of the body inside a loop. Is there nothing like "continue" in C or "next" in Perl? All I could find was either go to a tag at the end of the body or return from a block or function ... randomgeek(299)
Too Much Caffeine3833 (9/3/2006 7:02:43 PM) comp.lang.lisp I claim that Lisp will rise again - and sooner than later, it will do so from an unexpected cross between knowledge and end user programming. As computation infuses nearly every aspect of the modern world, the ... jshrager2(333)
Is Programming Boring?9338 (9/6/2006 3:12:24 PM) comp.lang.lisp In another thread Tim Bradshaw repeatedly claims: "programming is *hard* and *boring*" I'm okay with "Hard" because it's relative to your skill level, so I know that he's wrong from the outset. But I've never e... jshrager2(333)
Question about Lemonodor (still pro-Lisp?)640 (9/12/2006 2:58:57 AM) comp.lang.lisp Is Lemonodor still pro-Lisp? Or is it sort of gravitating toward other technologies, and just remembering Lisp as a rather quaint, esoteric language that doesn't fit as well with modern technology compared to ... j_mckitrick708(81)
Fast Run-time String Interpolation625 (9/16/2006 4:26:10 PM) comp.lang.lisp After many months of not doing anything, I'm working on my Common Lisp port of blosxom. I've got it in a roughly working version, but I've found a few bottlenecks. One was searching the disk for entries--I ma... eadmund42(519)
Definition of Software Engineering728 (10/13/2006 10:01:05 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi everyone. I wrote this article about the Definition of Software Engineering, and I touch a few scheme/lisp concepts about half way through the essay. I'm a scheme (and CL) novice, so if anyone would like, co... drewyates36(4)
Lisp and Scheme with fewer parentheses11728 (11/8/2006 12:30:02 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, Please keep an open mind whist reading this post. If you're not interested in new syntaxes for Lisp/Scheme, please read no further. defun factorial (n) if (<= n 1) ^ 1 * n f... birchb1(18)